Means for supporting sources of artificial light-in photographic apparatus having expansible housings

Abstract

A miniature still camera wherein a cover of the housing is reciprocable with respect to the lens-containing section of the housing and the cover contains a socket for indexible or non-indexible sources of artificial illumination. The camera is ready to make an exposure when the cover is moved to an extended position to increase the length of the housing; the source of artificial light is then sufficiently remote from the lens to insure satisfactory exposures of color film to artificial light even though the source of artificial light is not connected to the socket by an extender. An indexible socket can be rotated in response to movement of the cover with respect to the lens-containing section, and the cover can contain a mechanism which fires percussively ignitable flash lamps in response to actuation of the camera release. When the length of the housing is reduced, the socket is received in the space between the objective and the eyepiece of the viewfinder in the lens-containing section of the housing.

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